JILL vs. LOCO, NATH, SFIX, BRLT, GCO, TTSH, NEGG, PBPB, DIBS, and GENK
Should you be buying J.Jill stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of J.Jill include El Pollo Loco (LOCO), Nathan's Famous (NATH), Stitch Fix (SFIX), Brilliant Earth Group (BRLT), Genesco (GCO), Tile Shop (TTSH), Newegg Commerce (NEGG), Potbelly (PBPB), 1stdibs.Com (DIBS), and GEN Restaurant Group (GENK). These companies are all part of the "retail/wholesale" sector.
J.Jill (NYSE:JILL) and El Pollo Loco (NASDAQ:LOCO) are both small-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, analyst recommendations, profitability, media sentiment, earnings, community ranking, risk, institutional ownership and valuation.
40.7% of J.Jill shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 81.3% of El Pollo Loco shares are owned by institutional investors. 6.7% of J.Jill shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.9% of El Pollo Loco shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
El Pollo Loco received 135 more outperform votes than J.Jill when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 62.54% of users gave J.Jill an outperform vote while only 59.97% of users gave El Pollo Loco an outperform vote.
J.Jill currently has a consensus price target of $38.00, indicating a potential upside of 35.47%. El Pollo Loco has a consensus price target of $12.00, indicating a potential upside of 14.39%. Given J.Jill's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe J.Jill is more favorable than El Pollo Loco.
J.Jill has a beta of 1.01, meaning that its stock price is 1% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, El Pollo Loco has a beta of 1.44, meaning that its stock price is 44% more volatile than the S&P 500.
J.Jill has higher revenue and earnings than El Pollo Loco. J.Jill is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than El Pollo Loco, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
J.Jill has a net margin of 6.00% compared to El Pollo Loco's net margin of 5.64%. J.Jill's return on equity of 194.65% beat El Pollo Loco's return on equity.
In the previous week, El Pollo Loco had 11 more articles in the media than J.Jill. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for El Pollo Loco and 1 mentions for J.Jill. J.Jill's average media sentiment score of 0.53 beat El Pollo Loco's score of 0.46 indicating that J.Jill is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
J.Jill beats El Pollo Loco on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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